Indenting 2 or more lines i na paragraph

[bici]

Hi. Hope this is the rest place to ask of this. I would like to create a Text Frame or more likley a Text Style that has the First 6 Lines  indented  and a graphic placed into that space: see attached image. I have not found a place to allow indenting more than the first line.  And where is the place to include the graphic.I assume not in Text Styles

[thomaso]

Activate Text Wrap for the graphic, this will cause the required indent for the text.

[bici]

2 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Activate Text Wrap for the graphic, this will cause the required indent for the text.

my god i am dumb!  ... i was thinking i had to do it in the Text Styles!

[GarryP]

If your graphic is always a single-colour vector item then another possibility could be to convert it into a font glyph – various web services can do this for free, e.g. https://icomoon.io/ – and then use the Drop Caps functionality.

It’s more of a hassle in the short-term but could be useful if you need to use it many times.

I’ve attached an image showing where I have done this with one of my own vector-to-font-converted graphics.

[bici]

6 hours ago, GarryP said:

If your graphic is always a single-colour vector item then another possibility could be to convert it into a font glyph – various web services can do this for free, e.g. https://icomoon.io/ – and then use the Drop Caps functionality.

It’s more of a hassle in the short-term but could be useful if you need to use it many times.

I’ve attached an image showing where I have done this with one of my own vector-to-font-converted graphics.

Brilliant !  That is exactly what i had in mind!

[Old Bruce]

6 hours ago, GarryP said:

another possibility could be to convert it into a font glyph – ...– and then use the Drop Caps functionality.

Is this conversion to a font actually necessary? I have been doing what you suggest with all sorts of graphic files/formats and using the inline pinning in conjunction with the drop cap capabilities of a Paragraph Style.

[bici]

25 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

I have been doing what you suggest with all sorts of graphic files/formats and using the inline pinning in conjunction with the drop cap capabilities of a Paragraph Style.

how does one specify using a graphic as a drop cap in Paragraph Style? This sounds intriguing.

[Old Bruce]

1 minute ago, bici said:

how does one specify using a graphic as a drop cap in Paragraph Style? This sounds intriguing.

I will come back to this. Late night (for me) due to halloween, small children roaming the neighbourhood instead of bears. Then later on the bears got into the leftover Diwali fireworks and all heck broke loose.

[Old Bruce]

In essence I just replace the first letter of the Paragraph with the graphic via Copy and Paste. Then select the graphic and pin it. Set the pinning to Inline and apply Pointsize and baseline etc. Note the 6 % border for the Right. This is set to a 3 line Drop cap. The P is a PNG and the N is an SVG. I include all necessary files for you to play about with.

 drop cap.zip